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How can spaces and services impact people's ability to support each other and thrive in a community?

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Health and wellbeing Spaces and services
Health, wellbeing and belonging: Lessons from Big Local communities

As Big Local comes to an end in 2026, we're reflecting...
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A single storey brick building with three panelled glass doors and windows. A sign above the doors reads 'Bourne Community Hub'. There is a red bike rack to the left of the doors.
Spaces and services
Why community spaces and places matter more than we realise

Local Trust's programme manager, Helen Morton, explores the impact and value...
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Community buildings: strong foundations for renewal

Using evidence from Big Local, this report shows how long-term investment...
Spaces and services
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Black metal railing and gate opens into a bright green garden with plants and trees on either side of a paved footpath. Colourful bunting is hung on either side of the entrance.
Environment Spaces and services
Why green spaces are essential to thriving social infrastructure

Madeleine Jennings, explores a report from More in Common on the...
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A tram station platform with a covered seating area. It is a bright, sunny day.
Spaces and services
Why improving local transport is more crucial than ever

Marking Better Transport Week, Local Trust CEO, Rachel Rowney, shares why...
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The image shows three people wearing high-visibility orange safety vests inside an office-like setting. One man is holding and pointing to a brochure or document, explaining its contents to the other two individuals, who are attentively looking at it. The room has white walls, bulletin boards covered with papers, and a clock on the wall.
Spaces and services
Bridges between people, not just places: the case for social infrastructure

The government's current infrastructure plans focus heavily on physical infrastructure while...
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A group of volunteers wearing masks and gloves are working in a community food bank inside a hall with a high ceiling and exposed red beams. They are organiszing and distributing food items such as canned goods, pasta, and bread on blue tables. Some volunteers are wearing aprons with logos. Others in the background are packing supplies and assisting people.
Community spirit Spaces and services
Building resilience: The power of community first response

Matt Leach outlines how local social capital can be vital when...
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A 3D model of the plans for a community centre, with green space surrounding a community building.
Spaces and services
Build, build, build – but what is missing from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill?

A response to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
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An outdoor fitness area in a park with exercise equipment, paved pathways, and green grass. In the background, there are rows of red-brick residential houses with solar panels on their roofs, and beyond them, high-rise apartment buildings with colorful rooftops. Several streetlights line the park, and the sky is overcast with gray clouds.
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Press release: Social fabric for young people in most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Manchester ‘breaking at the seams’, a new report warns

A groundbreaking joint report by Local Trust, #Beewell (The University of...

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